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Tenable ASM

Eliminate manual effort and blind spots with continuous outside-in discovery and automated validation that maps every external risk.

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Tesco
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Panasonic
Stroer
Hitachi
Storebrand
Bertelsmann
Mirion
Wipro
Adama
Berlitz
Asklepios
SG
Agoda
Altice
Sleepnumber
Tesco
Colgate-Palmolive
Panasonic
Stroer
Hitachi
Storebrand
Bertelsmann
Mirion
Wipro
Adama
Berlitz
Asklepios
SG
Agoda
Altice
Sleepnumber
Tesco
Colgate-Palmolive
Panasonic
Stroer
Hitachi
Storebrand
Bertelsmann
Mirion
Wipro
Adama
Berlitz
Asklepios
SG
Agoda
Altice
Sleepnumber
The CyCognito Advantage

Why Security Teams Choose CyCognito

20× More Visibility


Gain over 20 times more visibility into external exposures than traditional ASM tools, revealing every internet-facing asset attackers could exploit.

90,000+ Testing Modules


Autonomous, black-box pentesting powered by 90,000+ testing modules continuously validates exposures across your entire attack surface.

0.01% Critical Focus


Focus on the top 0.01% of risks that truly matter; validated external-to-internal attack paths with real business impact.

up to 500K$ Annual Savings


Save up to $500,000 annually by reducing manual pentesting costs and minimizing dependency on bug bounty programs.

Head-to-Head Comparison

See how CyCognito and Tenable ASM Stack Up

Tenable ASM requires extensive manual work – up to 10 hours per asset – to verify ownership, validate threats, and manually map the changing attack surface, wasting the time of security teams. Enterprises relying on Tenable ASM are left with attack surfaces riddled with blind spots and critical risks left exposed to attackers.

Zero-Input Discovery

Zero-Input Discovery

Find your unknown unknowns.

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CyCognito doesn’t rely on what you know to find what you don’t.

  • CyCognito requires zero-input, zero-seeds, zero configuration, and zero onboarding
  • CyCognito uses OSINT-based reconnaissance techniques to attribute and contextualize the entire attack surface and identify unknown unknowns

Tenable ASM keeps your unknown unknowns in the dark.

  • Tenable ASM’s discovery process requires customer-supplied seed data and extensive manual work to adjust output
  • Tenable ASM’s limited asset metadata lacks attribution to asset owners or business units
Business Mapping & Context

Business Mapping & Context

Use deep discovery to see what an attacker sees.

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CyCognito finds everything with no gaps because it starts by mapping your organization and continuously updates it as your business changes.

  • CyCognito uses natural language processing, machine learning, and a graph data model to automatically map the organization, and identify subsidiaries
  • CyCognito goes beyond owned environments, covering web applications, data centers, SaaS, IaaS, partners, brands, acquired companies, joint ventures, and cloud environments
  • CyCognito categorizes subsidiaries based on risk score and creates a plan to improve their security posture

Tenable ASM’s limited discovery leaves you with blind spots.

  • Tenable ASM ignores the organization’s business structure, forcing you to try to map things manually and leading to blind spots
  • Tenable ASM focuses on known domains and IPs, leaving most of the attack surface in the dark
  • Tenable ASM can’t show risk on the subsidiary or regional level and fails to identify critical areas for security investment and improvement
Automated Unauthenticated Security Testing

Automated Unauthenticated Security Testing

High confidence automated risk validation for all assets.

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CyCognito actively and non-intrusively tests for 10,000s of CVEs with more than 90,000 tests.

  • CyCognito’s automated, unauthenticated security tests span 35+ categories, including DAST, WebApp OWASP Top 10, weak credentials, exploitable vulnerabilities, and data exposure
  • CyCognito’s testing engines cover 100% of your exposed attack surface on customizable cadences, even for attack surfaces that contain millions of assets and tens of thousands of web applications

Tenable ASM uses limited, low fidelity, low frequency testing.

  • Tenable ASM relies on passive scanning, while bulky agent-based testing is available only through other Tenable products
  • Other Tenable products, like Tenable VA and DAST, require significant input, configuration, and overhead, leaving critical risks uncovered
Accelerated Red Teaming

Accelerated Red Teaming

Maximize the results of your pen testing.

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CyCognito’s single source of truth scales your red team and makes your pen-testing budget go further.

  • CyCognito’s suite of 90,000+ unauthenticated automated remote checks reduces repetitive work
  • CyCognito supplies context and attribution for all external assets, making pen test information easier to operationalize
  • CyCognito provides the coverage, accuracy and frequency required to understand gaps in security posture

Tenable ASM leaves red teams chasing false positives.

  • Tenable ASM’s passive scanning leads to wasted time validating false positives and misses real risks
  • Tenable ASM requires teams to spend 3-10 hours per asset finding and verifying asset owners*
  • Tenable ASM doesn’t discover unknown unknowns, leaving the riskiest assets in the dark and untested

* According to former Tenable customers

Risk-based Issue Prioritization

Risk-based Issue Prioritization

Focus on risks, not on issues.

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CyCognito’s prioritization considers asset attractiveness to attackers, business context, targeted threat intelligence, and results from 90,000+ tests.

  • CyCognito’s next-gen prioritization algorithms identify less than 0.01% of issues as critical, focusing your teams on the top risks to your attack surface
  • CyCognito prioritizes every issue alongside verifiable evidence of exploitability, enabling a >60% reduction in MTTR, often days instead of weeks

Tenable ASM misses assets and issues, leading to ineffective prioritization.

  • Tenable ASM and VA’s prioritization is ineffective, classifying up to 3% of all issues as critical, and up to 25% of them as high severity**
  • Tenable ASM’s lack of prioritization, exploitability evidence, and attribution to owners leads to mean time to remediation (MTTR) of 6 months or more

** According to former Tenable customers

Remediation Validation and Integrations

Remediation Validation and Integrations

Minimize errors, maximize efficiency.

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CyCognito’s validation tools integrate directly with the leading security solutions like Splunk, ServiceNow, and Armis.

  • CyCognito supports over 1,200 integrations and apps that help you work seamlessly, centralize information, and boost collaboration
  • CyCognito’s Remediation Validation feature automatically checks if a remediation attempt has been successful
  • CyCognito’s Remediation Planner tool builds remediation plans to improve the security posture of organizations and their subsidiaries

Tenable ASM’s lack of connection to other security tools slows MTTR.

  • Leading industry analysts criticized Tenable ASM for their lack of critical third party connectors to ingest and export data
  • Tenable ASM alone cannot validate remediation success, requiring manual followup
  • Tenable ASM lacks the ability to build a remediation plan to guide systematic improvements
Spotlight

Recognized Market Leader

GigaOm Names CyCognito ASM Leader

The 2025 GigaOm Radar recognizes CyCognito as an Attack Surface Management Leader for its depth of asset discovery, scalable automation, and precision in risk prioritization.

Read the report to compare internal and external ASM providers, see how they complement each other, and find the best fit for your organization.

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Testimonials

Users Feedback Matters Most

CyCognito identifies a vulnerability and gives us a clear path to trace it back to it's origin. This helps us pinpoint the owner within our company so we can work with them on remediation.

CyCognito became a cornerstone of our security set-up by solving multiple pain points with automatic detection of assets, continously anaylzing for vulnerbilities and an easy-to-use and comprehensive platform to manage these issues.

Cycognito is a great asm platform. From escalating latest cve's, to show the attack path on specific assets. A great tool for monitoring your attack surface.

Helps in continous monitoring to the emphasis of vulnerabilites and ensures that some new changes in the environment are immediately detected.

I can't point to another tool that does as thorough a job of exploring and exposing those assets that you didn't even know you had. It's so valuable.

Prior to Cycognito we never had visibility like this even though we use other scanning solutions.

We basically said, ‘CyCognito, tell me anywhere in my footprint where we’re vulnerable to Log4J.’ The platform ran the scan within hours and had verification back to us.

Continuous application security testing - helps us find issues coming from outside our infrastructure.

We use the CyCognito platform to create a more secure business environment. It’s a powerful tool for preventing security breaches.

In the first full year of running the platform, there were approximately 140 criticals that needed to be remediated in a timely manner. I'm pretty sure out of those 140 items, we would have only come across a fraction doing it ourselves manually.

CyCognito is a game-changer! Uncovering shadows risks, prioritizing vulnerabilities, and providing actionable insights has elevated our security posture.

Instead of staying up all weekend responding to an incident, we can assign people to fix the problem during work hours, which means it never gets exploited in the first place.

CyCognito is best in breed. It's also standalone. So I can buy it to fix a specific problem without needing to engage buy five or six other products from another vendor.

CyCognito was the only platform to offer a full inventory of all our subsidiaries. They even found a company from an acquisition just two months prior, one that not even my CIO knew about.

Risk scoring and vulnerability detection features are very useful to prioritize the high-risk assets which include misconfigurations and unpatched software versions.

CyCognito is one of the first most important tools to understand what a hacker can see; it saves a lot of time and helps us to capture all the assets and all the vulnerabilities.

The CyCognito platform applies automated technology to solve problems that people, legacy tools, and processes alone aren't solving.

There are thousands of threats out there, even an army of security staff can’t address them all. CyCognito helps us focus our efforts on what’s critical.

Outstanding! I'm in love with this attack surface monitoring tool.

Cycognito seamlessly discovers all external assets, even those that are hidden or unregistered, providing security teams with comprehensive visibility.

Risk scoring and vulnerability detection features are very useful to prioritize the high-risk assets which include misconfigurations and unpatched software versions.

CyCognito was the only platform to offer a full inventory of all our subsidiaries. They even found a company from an acquisition just two months prior, one that not even my CIO knew about.

CyCognito identifies a vulnerability and gives us a clear path to trace it back to it's origin. This helps us pinpoint the owner within our company so we can work with them on remediation.

Continuous application security testing - helps us find issues coming from outside our infrastructure.

In the first full year of running the platform, there were approximately 140 criticals that needed to be remediated in a timely manner. I'm pretty sure out of those 140 items, we would have only come across a fraction doing it ourselves manually.

Prior to Cycognito we never had visibility like this even though we use other scanning solutions.

CyCognito is best in breed. It's also standalone. So I can buy it to fix a specific problem without needing to engage buy five or six other products from another vendor.

CyCognito became a cornerstone of our security set-up by solving multiple pain points with automatic detection of assets, continously anaylzing for vulnerbilities and an easy-to-use and comprehensive platform to manage these issues.

Cycognito is a great asm platform. From escalating latest cve's, to show the attack path on specific assets. A great tool for monitoring your attack surface.

CyCognito is one of the first most important tools to understand what a hacker can see; it saves a lot of time and helps us to capture all the assets and all the vulnerabilities.

The CyCognito platform applies automated technology to solve problems that people, legacy tools, and processes alone aren't solving.

Risk scoring and vulnerability detection features are very useful to prioritize the high-risk assets which include misconfigurations and unpatched software versions.

CyCognito was the only platform to offer a full inventory of all our subsidiaries. They even found a company from an acquisition just two months prior, one that not even my CIO knew about.

CyCognito identifies a vulnerability and gives us a clear path to trace it back to it's origin. This helps us pinpoint the owner within our company so we can work with them on remediation.

Continuous application security testing - helps us find issues coming from outside our infrastructure.

In the first full year of running the platform, there were approximately 140 criticals that needed to be remediated in a timely manner. I'm pretty sure out of those 140 items, we would have only come across a fraction doing it ourselves manually.

Prior to Cycognito we never had visibility like this even though we use other scanning solutions.

CyCognito is best in breed. It's also standalone. So I can buy it to fix a specific problem without needing to engage buy five or six other products from another vendor.

CyCognito became a cornerstone of our security set-up by solving multiple pain points with automatic detection of assets, continously anaylzing for vulnerbilities and an easy-to-use and comprehensive platform to manage these issues.

Cycognito is a great asm platform. From escalating latest cve's, to show the attack path on specific assets. A great tool for monitoring your attack surface.

CyCognito is one of the first most important tools to understand what a hacker can see; it saves a lot of time and helps us to capture all the assets and all the vulnerabilities.

The CyCognito platform applies automated technology to solve problems that people, legacy tools, and processes alone aren't solving.

We basically said, 'CyCognito, tell me anywhere in my footprint where we're vulnerable to Log4J.' The platform ran the scan within hours and had verification back to us.

CyCognito is a game-changer! Uncovering shadows risks, prioritizing vulnerabilities, and providing actionable insights has elevated our security posture.

There are thousands of threats out there, even an army of security staff can't address them all. CyCognito helps us focus our efforts on what's critical.

Instead of staying up all weekend responding to an incident, we can assign people to fix the problem during work hours, which means it never gets exploited in the first place.

We use the CyCognito platform to create a more secure business environment. It's a powerful tool for preventing security breaches.

Cycognito seamlessly discovers all external assets, even those that are hidden or unregistered, providing security teams with comprehensive visibility.

I can't point to another tool that does as thorough a job of exploring and exposing those assets that you didn't even know you had. It's so valuable.

Outstanding! I'm in love with this attack surface monitoring tool.

Helps in continous monitoring to the emphasis of vulnerabilites and ensures that some new changes in the environment are immediately detected.

We basically said, 'CyCognito, tell me anywhere in my footprint where we're vulnerable to Log4J.' The platform ran the scan within hours and had verification back to us.

CyCognito is a game-changer! Uncovering shadows risks, prioritizing vulnerabilities, and providing actionable insights has elevated our security posture.

There are thousands of threats out there, even an army of security staff can't address them all. CyCognito helps us focus our efforts on what's critical.

Instead of staying up all weekend responding to an incident, we can assign people to fix the problem during work hours, which means it never gets exploited in the first place.

We use the CyCognito platform to create a more secure business environment. It's a powerful tool for preventing security breaches.

Cycognito seamlessly discovers all external assets, even those that are hidden or unregistered, providing security teams with comprehensive visibility.

I can't point to another tool that does as thorough a job of exploring and exposing those assets that you didn't even know you had. It's so valuable.

Outstanding! I'm in love with this attack surface monitoring tool.

Helps in continous monitoring to the emphasis of vulnerabilites and ensures that some new changes in the environment are immediately detected.